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PEEFACE. 

If Protestant emigratiou to America from Euro- 
pean countries continues to increase in the same 
ratio in the next half century that it has during the 
past decade, in the year 1950 the Roman Catholic 
Irish will bear to peoples of that day and generation 
in America, about the same proportion as the China- 
man does to the peoples of to-day. But this state 
of things will depend almost wholly upon the energy 
and watchfulness of the Protestants of to-day, as 
the Jesuits of to-day are doing all in their power to 
restrict and retard Protestant emigration from 
Europe, by framing laws of every conceivable form 
and shape in order to accomplish this end, and 
having them presented to Congress to become laws 
of the land. They are fathers of the Chinese ex- 
clusion act, the contract labor law, and the bill to 
exclude paupers (a Jesuit pretence) which is before 
the present Congress. As a matter of fact, Poman 
Catholic Ireland has emigrated ; the Jesuits are 
aware of it, and now their great aim is to head off 
Protestant emigration from Europe, and to this end 
they are working night and day ; for no one knows 
better than they, that when in America Protestants 
are as ten to one of Roman Catholics, their death- 
knell is sounded. If Protestant emigration from 



Europe is unrestricted from this date to the year 
1950, it will be hard for the young men and women 
of that day to comprehend or realize what a curse 
their grandfathers and grandmothers of to-day have 
had to contend with in the shape of these Roman 
Catholic Irish sons and daughters (at present known 
as hoodlums) of the originally imported dudeen- 
suckiug bogtrotters. It was for this purpose, and 
their enlightenment, that this book was written. 
If by chance there should be a reader of this book 
in 1950 who should doubt any of the statements 
therein, he or she is respectfully referred to the 
criminal statistics of the present time as satisfactory 
proof of them, " for by their names ye shall know 
them" ; and the author hopes and trusts that his 
Protestant readers will hereafter be more watchful 
of these Jesuits, more especially of those with this 
accursed Irish blood in their veins, who are at 
present being educated, in the Jesuit colleges, from 
one end of the land to the other for future mischief. 
Let every true American remember that "Eternal 
vigilance is the price of liberty." 



CHAPTEE I. 

THE PAST. 

On the night of August 11th, 1834, the Romau 
Catholic Ursuline Convent, on Mount Benedict, 
which is situated on the easterly side of Broadway, 
in that part of Somerville, Massachusetts, known as 
East Somerville, near what is now the new Park, 
was destroyed by a party of men, the majority of 
whom were supposed to be truckmen, who had come 
from the neighboring city of Boston. While this 
party of men were making a rush up the hillside, 
toward the convent, with the intention of destroying 
it, for what to them at that time seemed to be a good 
and suflScient reason, a duty, and for the public good, 
they were met at the entrance by the Irish woman 
who WHS at that time acting in the capacity of Lady 
Superior of the convent. As she came out on the 
steps of the front entrance, she, in an excited man- 
ner, and in a very authoritative tone of voice, prob- 
ably the same as she was in the habit of using in 
addressing the poor, ignorant, and deluded victims 
that had been placed in her charge : "Disperse im- 
mediately," she said ; "for if you don't, the Bishop 
(meaning Fenwick) has one hundred thousand 
Roman Catholic Irishmen at his command in Bos- 
ton, who will whip you all into the sea." But this 
party of men, not being made of the ignorant, 
superstitious, and cowardly material of her country- 
men, and having about as much fear of, or respect 



for, the Pope of Rome, Bishop Fenwick, or the 
Irish priests as they would have for a wooden don- 
key, kept right on about their duty and the business 
that had called them together, and, to use a common 
expression, ''They did not scare worth a cent." 

The blood that coursed in the veins of those men 
was the same quatity as that which coursed in that 
of their fathers at Bunker's Hill, but a few years 
before, and the same as that which coursed in those 
of their great-grandfathers, the pilgrims, who had 
landed on Plymouth Rock some centuries previous 
to the time that they were there assembled. It is an 
old saying that "blood will tell," and there is a pos- 
sibility that some of that stock of the present day, 
which has some of that same blood coursing 
through its veins, may come to the front in the 
course of the next decade. This Irish woman was 
laboring under great excitement about this time, or 
else she might have been imbibing a drap of the 
crathur, or in other words some of that good, pure 
old Medford rum which was known to have been 
kept in the cellar vaults of the convent for the 
benefit, use, and entertainment of the old bishop 
and his young and robust Irish priests, whenever 
he or they paid the nuns a visit, — -and at that time it 
was a well-known and established fact that they 
greatly differed from angels' visits, in the respect 
that they were not ''few and far betwe^i." In their 
drives out of town they made this convent their 
half-way or road house, as it would be called at the' 



present day ; but be this as it may, as a matter of 
fact if this Irishwoman had said five thousand in- 
stead of one hundred thousand Roman Catholic 
Irishmen, she would have made a statement which 
would have been nearer the truth. There are thou- 
sands of persons now living who will bear witness 
the truth of the statement that in the year 1834, 
outside of the old limits of the then city of Boston, 
Irishmen, or bogtrotters, as they were then called, 
were as much a matter of curiosity to the children 
of that day .is are Chinamen to the children of the 
rural districts of New England to-day, and neither 
were they any more plentiful than the Chinamen of 
to-day, or half as much respected. The majority 
of them were paupers, dirty and filthy, and were 
at this time looked upon by the native Yankee much 
the same as they are considered by decent people of 
the present time, as representatives of the scum of the 
earth, and the criminal records of all the large towns 
and cities of New England, from that time to the pres- 
ent date, will prove the correctness of this estimate 
of them ; as to-day ninety per cent of all our 
paupers, thieves, robbers, and murderers which fill 
our almshouses, houses of correction, and States 
prisons in New England are of this Roman Catholic 
Irish descent. Paddy would land at the wharf in 
Boston, do up his extra clothes in a cotton handker- 
chief, tie it to one end of his shillelah, and placing 
that over his shoulder, light his dudeen, and thus 
equipped start out among the farmers looking for a 



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job, and when passing a group of village boys if he 
was not deaf would hear one of them say, "See 
there, boys, there goes a paddy, there goes a bog- 
trotter," now called tramp, and he and his have 
been tramps ever since. 

The Roman Catholic population of Boston at 
that time (1834) were more largely composed of 
people of French and Spanish descent, than of the 
Irish blood, — there was comparatively little emigra- 
tion from Ireland to America until about eighteen 
hundred and forty-seven, the year of the great potato 
famine, as the emigration statistics of that date will 
show. It was in January or February of that year 
that word was sent from Ireland to America that 
owing to the failure or loss of the potato ( murphy s, 
the Irish call them) crop upon which most of the 
inhabitants of that island depended for subsist- 
ence, that whole families were dying from starva- 
tion, and as the then Yankees of New England, like 
many of their descendants of to-day, were never 
backward about coming forward at the cry of dis- 
tress whether at home or abroad, two or three large 
government vessels were filled by contributions 
from whole-souled Yankees from the length and 
breadth of New England, and were soon speeding 
across the Atlantic to old Ireland's shore, to give 
relief to her starving children. There are many of 
the sons and daughters of those contributors now 
living, who are inclined to think that those contribu- 
tions may have been a blessing to Ireland, but have 



proved a curse to America, for from that day to 
this, this accursed country of Irelaud has been 
flooding New England with paupers, thieves, and 
murderers ; and though we have here representa- 
tives from every nation inhabiting this tevrestnal 
sphere, it is the general verdict of every respectable 
man in New England, that the representatives of 
this accursed nation are the worst that have ever 
set foot upon New England's shores. 

At this date, 1847, there was but little manufact- 
uring going on in New England as compared with 
the present time. Farming was the principal occu- 
pation of the inhabitants at that time Lynn 
Lowell, Haverhill, and Fall River, Mass., and 
Manchester, N. H., as compared with to-day were 
but small factory villages, and the present large 
and beautiful city of Lawrence, Mass., was but a 
sandheap, and its now valuable lots of land went 
begging at five dollars an acre. The tben "iankee 
laborer went to his work at sunrise and left off at 
sunset. This constituted his day's work. There 
was no eight hours or ten hours then, and he worked 
hard and steady, with no boss to stand over him to 
see that he did not shirk. The laborers of that day 
vied with each other to see which would turn off the 
most work during the day, and at haying time each 
was ambitious to cut the largest field of grass with 
the old-fashioned scythe. Every man worked for 
his neighbor as he would for himself. But with the 
Irish bogtrotter came the shirks, and the boss 



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came into fashion ; and any observing person can 
see that the Irish children of that day, who are the 
common day laborers on our streets and elsewhere 
of to-day, came honestly by, or, in other words, 
have inherited their sires' labor-shirking qualities to 
perfection. In those days there was no Eoman 
Catholic League in existence known as the Knights 
of Labor, as there is to-day, banded together as 
they are, from one end of the country to the other, 
with the intention of controlling all of the industrial 
trades to the exclusion of other nationalities. Take 
the plasterers, the masons, plumbers, stone-cutters, 
and rumsellers in New England, — nearly all Roman 
Catholic Irish to a man. Take the laboring force of 
nearly every large city. Through the influence of 
the Irish over the dough-faced politician it is almost 
impossible for a Protestant to obtain work on a city 
force. 

But let us follow Paddy from the day he lands at 
the wharf. In those days he was invariably a 
pauper when he landed. The man who was starv- 
ing at home for the want of a peck of murphys, 
was not usually very flush when he reached New 
England's shore. A cotton handkerchief usually 
held his surplus clothing ; his brogans weighed 
pounds, and their soles were solid with large-headed 
nails. If that kind were worn at the present day, 
two moderate-sized Lynn factories would supply 
the whole needs of the country, as a pair of them 
was never known to wear out. His clothes were 



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corduroy, and, as the old saying is, "wore like 
leather," and he would be more likely to forget the 
holy Virgin Mary than his dudeen ; and in those 
days a fresh bogtrotter was never known to be 
without his sprig of shillelah, more especially if he 
was from County Cork, and it was generally one 
that he liad brought with him from the old coun- 
try. With these equipments, after lighting his 
dudeen, Paddy would start on a tramp to the 
suburbs among the farmers, looking for a job ; and 
Paddy has the credit of being the first tramp this 
country ever knew, and his children seem to have 
inherited that habit from him, as ninety-five per cent 
of all of the tramps of the present day are Irish 
Roman Catholics. To the truth of this, every 
keeper of the country almshouses throughout New 
England will attest. At this time laboring men 
throughout New England were receiving from one 
dollar to one dollar and twenty-five cents a day for 
their long daj^s of toil, but a more contented set of 
men it would be hard to find ; but Paddy the pauper 
was abroad, and he must have work or starve, and 
the farmers were not slow to take advantage of his 
necessity ; so Paddy was hired for from four to six 
dollars a month and his board, to fill the place of the 
Yankee laborer. As board among the farmers of 
that day was but one dollar and fifty cents a week, 
Paddy was working for less than fifty cents a day ; 
and his descendants, who now compose the rank 
and fil-e of what is known as the Knights of Labor, 



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are very free to call out "scab." Let them in the 
future bear in mind that their fathers and mothers 
were the first scabs ever known in New England. 
These brogan-shod McGintys came so fast from 
Ireland's bogs about this time that the labor market 
was overstocked, and many is the McGinty that, 
with his family, of from eight to twelve children, 
went direct from the vessel at the wharf to the poor 
farm ; and their descendants have seemed ambitious 
to keep these institutions filled from that day to 
this, — and well have they done it, as the list of 
names of the inmates of the almshouses in New 
England will readily show ; for "by their names ye 
shall know them.'* 

In 1847 the now flourishing city of Lowell was 
but a factory village, and its employees were young 
native American women, daughters of Maine, Ver- 
mont, and New Hampshire, as well as Massachu- 
setts farmers. Young women with fair education, 
many of them wrote for the magazines of that day, 
and one or two magazines published in Lowell were 
edited wholly by them during their hours of leisure, 
and many is the farm in Maine and New Hampshire 
that has had its mortgage lifted by the earnings and 
savings of these dutiful daughters ; but McGinty's 
daughters must have something to do, and one after 
another were these young American women crowded 
out to make room for the low-priced female McGinty 
scabs, until to-day the native American female 
wage-earner in the mills is as scarce as cherries in 



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winter. About this time (1847) certain far-sighted 
moneyed men, or capitalists of Boston and Lowell, 
purchased for a trifle several hundred acres of sand- 
bank on the north and south sides of the Merrimac 
E-iver, where at present is located the large and 
beautiful city of Lawrence, and commenced to build 
a dam across the river at its present location, as also 
the canals which now furnish the water-power for 
the numerous mills located along their banks 
on both sides of the river. The building of these 
absorbed a large amount of surplus Irish paupers 
and tramps, and a settlement was commenced. 
Up to this time Paddy, like John Chinaman, had 
got here just the same, but his numerous family 
hadn't ; they were munching murphys and feeding 
the pigs and hens, and burning peat on their native 
bogs, waiting patiently for McGinty to say the 
word and send the cash, that they might come to 
"Ameriky," and leave dear old Ireland behind 
them, — that dear old country they are continually 
harping about, but to which they seem to have no 
desire to return, much to many people's disappoint- 
ment. The aforementioned settlement was chris- 
tened Dublin, and such a settlement the inhabitants 
of New England never saw before, and in all prob- 
ability never will again. 

The McGintys went to work constructing houses 
after the style of those they had left behind them, 
on dear old Ireland's bogs. First, Paddy would 
look round to find a boggy spot of ground, it came 



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so natural ; then he would inclose some twenty feet 
square of land by first setting four posts in the 
ground, some twenty feet apart ; after being set they 
would be four or five feet in height above the surface 
or level of the ground; then he would set posts 
between, and then commence to nail boards out- 
side of them. Many of these boards were ob- 
tained in midnight raids on the neighboring farmers' 
fences. There was no police force then, and Paddy 
was happy and unmolested. He would then bank 
lip the four sides with loam, leaving an opening on 
one side for an entrance ; then, if fences were near 
and boards were plenty, he would board the top ; 
if not, a thatch of straw taken from some neigh- 
boring farmer's rye field during the wane of the 
moon answered his purpose. 

Now Paddy was ready for business. Bridget and 
the spalpeens were sent for. In the meantime 
Paddy had got a goat, some hens, geese, and two 
or three mongrel pups, and a pig. The former he 
had probably bought of one of his neighbors, and 
been obliged to pay for it, but the latter had, with- 
out doubt, escaped or strayed from the farm from 
which he had taken the fence, and he had only 
taken them into his hut>'so as to kape them from 
getting lost, begorrah." There was not less than 
fifty of these huts, all built the same way, and 
about the same size ; and here lived Pat and his 
family, in which was included the pig, the hens, 
geese, pups, and the goat, — all in one room, with 



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nary a curtain between, all seemingly happy and 
contented ; and at the end of every third year Pat 
could generally count on four additional spalpeens, 
as they breed as fast as rabbits ; and every 
Sabbath it was fun for the farmers and their 
sons, for miles around, to visit this modern 
Dublin, to see the McGintys, as it were, on their 
native heath. No heathen Chinee ever yet came 
to this country and lived in such filth, even for a 
day, as did the families of these bogtrotters for 
years. Up to this time the neighboring farmers 
never thought of locking up their barns and houses 
at night, any more than they do now away up 
among the farms of the interior towns of Vermont. 
A strong wooden latch, with string, was deemed 
sufficient to keep out all intruders, and hinges made 
of leather on the barn doors w^as the rule rather 
than the exception. But a change was soon to 
come over their dreams, for Paddy and his family 
had come to stay, and to steal from a heretic was 
no sin according to their creed ; fences disappeared, 
the farmers called their chickens in vain, the famil- 
iar squeal of their pigs at meal time was among the 
things that were. Then came a boom in padlocks, 
and locks of every description were fast getting to 
be at a premium ; men's brains were set at work to 
contrive new combinations, and they have been at 
work in that direction from that day to this ; still 
Paddy gets there just the same, as the criminal 
statistics of New England will show. And many i^ 



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the fortune that has since been made way down in 
the Nutmeg State by the manufacture of locks. 
These fortune getters can thank Paddy for that. 

The majority of these Roman Catholic Irish 
among us seem to prefer filth to cleanliness. It is 
possible that this mode of life keeps them in mind 
of the beautiful bogs of ould Ireland, about which 
they and their children are always harping, and 
which to all appearances they are delighted to emi- 
grate from ; for let one of them, by the sale of rum 
and whiskey, or by robbing some city treasury, 
accumulate a foitune, you never hear him lisp a 
word about returning to those dear old bogs, not he ! 
How different with the heathen Chinee ! You never 
hear him bragging of China's beautiful bogs ; he 
does not accumulate his riches by selling rum and 
whiskey ; he does not rob his neighbor, or make 
him have the feeling that neither his property or 
life is secure ; he does not fill the almshouses and 
State prisons of New England as do these Irish ; 
but he is cleanly, works early and late, pays 
promptly his house and shop rent and for what he 
eats, and practices the most rigid economy that he may 
accumulate money enough to once more return to his 
native country before leaving this mundane sphere. 
What a blessing it would be to New England if these 
Irish would but follow his example ! But no ; with 
all their blarney about old Ireland and its beautiful 
bogs, it is a notorious fact that when an Irishman 
has once shaken its bog dirt off his feet he never 



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wants any more of it, not he. America is good 
enough for him. If the Chinese exclusion act is 
constitutional, would it not be a good idea to applj 
it to Ireland, and make it retroactive to 1850 ? This 
would empty every almshouse in New England, 
and the majority of the State prisons. 

These Irish bogtrotters never seemed to be so 
supremely happy as at a wake ; some Irish man, 
woman, or child would die, and the family would as 
soon think of going without eating as not to have a 
wake. Everybody in the neighborhood was invited, 
and all looked happy, and seemed to enjoy them 
as much as going to a ball. These were held in 
the night. Plenty of dudeens, tobacco, and rum 
w^ere provided, as also a bushel of murphys. The 
corpse was laid out in the middle of the room, or 
else seated in a chair in some corner, and the 
exercises commenced by all the old women in the 
neighborhood collecting about the corpse, making a 
crooning or horrible noise ; then the dudeens and 
whiskey would be freely circulated among the 
younger portion, who would soon be pelting each 
other with murphys, and then would be enacted a 
scene very fitting for Dante's Inferno : the most of 
the participants would be stupidly drunk, and before 
the end of the carousal they and the corpse would 
be lying in a heap together on the floor. It is al- 
most impossible for the young men and women of 
to-day to realize that such disgraceful scenes were 
ever enacted in this civilized country ; but as a 



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matter of fact, at that time, it was the rule for 
every Roman Catholic man, woman, or child to 
have a wake ; while to-day it is the exception. 
And at all these wakes the same disgraceful scenes 
were enacted over and over again. Then rum and 
tobacco were plenty and cheap, and at these wakes 
they were free, to all, and Paddy made the best 
of his opportunities, as he probably would to-day 
under the same circumstances. A dog could not 
die in that neighborhood but Paddy would have an 
itching to have a wake, such good times were they 
then considered by these people. 

About the year 1850 several railroads were pro- 
jected in New England. The grading of these rail- 
roads was pushed forward with great energy by 
several of the, at that time, leading capitalists of 
New England, and the services of Paddy were in 
great demand, as he seemed to take to pick and 
shovel as naturally as a duck to water. A hill 
would have to be cut through, a valley filled up, — 
such a thing as a steam shovel at that time had not 
been heard of in New England, but horses and 
Paddies were plenty and cheap. Fair horses brought 
twenty-five dollars each, and Irish pauper bogtrotteri 
could be had for seventy-five cents a day. The first 
thing to be done in starting to build a railroad at that 
date was for Paddy to commence at some point at the 
proper or established grade, with his pick, shovel 
and Paddybarrow (this was where a certain kind of 
barrow in use to-day first got its name) . These men 



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were divided into three sets ; one set plied the pick, 
the second set did the filling, and the third set trundled 
the loaded Paddybarrow to its destination or dump- 
ing-place . When the excavated and filled surface had 
reached a length of three or four hundred feet, wooden 
sleepers, as they were called, would be laid down, 
and two wooden rails some three or four inches 
square spiked to them at the proper distance apart, 
and upon these, cheap-built dump-cars were placed, 
and a horse attached ; the Paddybarrows were then 
thrown aside, the cars were filled, drawn to the end 
of the leveled surface and dumped. 

Sometimes there would be hundreds of these bog- 
trotters employed at one excavation or cut, and 
among all of these there were but few that came 
from the same county in Ireland. Some were from 
County Cork, others from County Down, others from 
County Tipperary, and still others from County 
Dublin. They were housed in large shanties built 
of rough boards, and situated in the field near the 
railroad where they were at work. The shanties 
had a long table in the centre made of rough 
boards, and bunks along the sides also made of 
rough boards where they slept, and one or more of 
their number did the cooking ; and the bill of fare 
was not usually a very elaborate affair. One day 
they would have boiled murphys and fried salt pork, 
and the next day they would have fried salt pork 
and boiled murphys, just for a change. There 
were no women or children about the premises, ex- 



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cept once in awhile a sly aud curious Yankee boy 
might be seen peeping into the shanty door, just to 
see how tlie Paddies lived ; very much the same as 
the curious Irish boy of to-day peeps into John 
Chinaman's apartment, that he may get an idea of 
his manner of living. On rainy days there would 
be no work^ for Paddy, and one of the number 
would be delegated to take the gallon jug and go to 
the nearest grocery and get it filled with Irish 
whiskey or good old Medford rum. At that time 
whiskey and rum was sold by grocers over the 
counter, the same as milk is sold to-day. There 
were no so-called liquor stores at that time. It was 
pure, then, and it was so cheap it did not pay to 
adulterate it with anything but water, and there 
were no licenses to pay at that time, either high or low. 
On Mike's return with the well-filled jug each man 
took his turn, and the tin dipper was passed around 
till the contents of the jug w^as a minus quantity, — 
and then the fun commenced. First came the sing- 
ing of Irish songs, then the dancing of Irish jigs ; 
and as the liquor decreased, in the same ratio the 
fun increased, for by this time they were fighting 
drunk, and soon the fighting commenced and Pan- 
demonium reigned, and the Paddy from County 
Cork went for Dennis, the bloody fardow^ner from 
County Down, and Paddy from County Tipperary 
went for Mike from County Dublin, and in a short 
time every man of them would be fighting and 
acting like so many demons, and never did the re- 



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Downed John L. Sullivan have a more interested 
audience than did the bogtrotters, while pummeling 
each other to their hearts' content. As the inhabit- 
ants of those days were quiet, order-loving citizens, 
who respected themselves and their neighbors, no 
village had more, or occasion for more, than one 
constable, and he had but little to do ; but on these 
occasions he was powerless, except to see that 
their fighting was all done with each other, and 
within their prescribed limits, or on the railroad 
grounds. The next day, if it was pleasant, it was 
hail fellow well met, and things would go along as 
if nothing had happened ; and though black eyes 
and broken noses were plenty, all was forgiven, and 
it was all laid to the whiskey ; but every rainy day 
brought a repetition of the scenes, which brought 
terror to the hearts of the women and children of 
the neighborhood, but afforded excitement to the 
male citizens. ^ 

Previous to the year eighteen hundred and fifty 
the grocers of that day monopolized the liquor 
business, and liquor, as the saying goes, "was as 
free as water," and could be had for the asking^ 
and a drunkard at that time was the exception 
rather than the rule. They sold it over the counter 
by the gill, pint, quart or gallon, as the customer 
might wish ; but if only a drink was wanted, the 
kind wanted was asked for, and a bottle containing 
that particular kind, as well as a tumbler, was 
placed on the counter ; the customer would then 



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turn out what was called three fingers, — this was 
the usual amount or regulation quantity for a 
single drink. After the customer had deposited 
the drink where (as he supposed) it would do the 
most good, he would lay down a Spanish silver 
piece called at that time fourpencehalf-penny, 
representing six and a quarter cents : this at that 
time was the regular price for a drink, nickels and 
dimes not being then in use. 

Liquor saloons and drunkards are Roman Catho- 
lic Irish innovations that have been introduced into 
New England since the above date by these same 
Roman Catholic Irish, and as a rule this class have 
monopolized this business in New England from 
that day to this. Many people of the present day 
think that the sale of rum and whiskey should be 
prohibited, and have not a single word to say in its 
favor ; but did they ever stop to think that even rum 
and whiskey may have their virtues ? They read in 
their daily paper, very often, an item like the fol- 
lowing : "The body of Mike McSorley, an ex-State 
prison convict, a tough, and the terror of his neigh- 
borhood, was picked up this morning on South 
Boston flats. A flask partly filled with poor whis- 
key tells the story of how he came there.'' Now, it 
does not take much of a stretch of the imagination 
to see that that flask of whiskey may have prevented 
a murder from having been committed in the near 
future ; and did it not thereby save considerable ex- 
pens^ to thQ State ? Truly whiskev has somQ vir- 



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tuGS which are not paraded before the public. It 
is this class of Roman Catholic Irish citizens at the 
present date who seem to be the most anxious to 
have, and clamor and vote for, free rum and whiskey ; 
and what could be the objection provided they were 
prohibited from selling it to any but their own kith 
and kin. Might it not be an important factor in 
settling the Irish Roman Catholic question, which is 
sure to come to the front within a few years, and 
possibly avert a religious war. 

Though all kinds of liquors were so plenty and 
low-priced at that time, it was a rare thing to see a 
citizen go staggering home to his family the worse 
for liquor. The laboring man of that day had too 
much self-respect to allow himself to lower his man- 
hood to the level of the brute ; he would have been 
despised by his neighbors and have been the talk of 
the town. But the importation of Paddy has greatly 
changed public sentiment ; so common has become 
the sight of the drunken sons of these Irish bog- 
trotters, that they at the present day are hardly 
given a passing glance ; and hardly a day passes 
but in some part of the country one or more of 
these, lower than brutes, murders his wife or chil- 
dren, or both. There is no brute so low but that it 
will defend with its life its mate and offspring. 

About the year eighteen hundred and fifty there 
commenced to arrive in goodly numbers that curse 
of the Irish and every other nation wherever they 
have planted their footsteps — in the shape of a mai^ 



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but with the look of a beast — the Roman Catholic 
Irish priest. These priests were invariably known 
as Father So-and-so, as they are to this day ; and if 
all that is said of them is true, the name is very 
appropriate. We have had French Catholic priests 
and German Catholic priests among us in the past, 
and peace has reigned ; it is this accursed Irish 
blood in the Roman Catholic priestcraft that has 
made and will make the trouble in the future, — 
this accursed blood that fought each other in 
Ireland until England conquered them all ; and 
were Ireland free to-day from England's rule the 
Roman Catholic Irish would probably soon be 
assassinating each other as in days gone by. These 
Jesuit priests have kept Spain two hundred years 
behind the times ; Italy is to-day where she should 
have been one hundred years ago ; France has felt 
the Roman Catholic yoke ; but Roman Catholicism 
is short lived in Republics, and as their hold in 
Europe is fast passing from their grasp, America 
now seems to be their objective point. But there 
is a little of the blood of the Pilgrim Fathers still in 
the land, as the near future will prove. Plymouth 
Rock was good solid material to land on, and it is 
as solid to-day as it was in 1620 ; and until it crum- 
bles to dust, the children of the Pilgrims will be 
ready to resist the encroachments of the enemy of 
their forefathers. Let the Jesuits in America take 
warning. The firing of but one gunshot at Sumter 
brought hundreds of thousands of men to arms. 
This brings us down to the year I860* 



About this time that noble man and orator, Wen- 
dell Phillips, was in his prime, and was using his 
utmost endeavor, in a legal manner, to liberate the 
Southern slave. One beautiful Sabbath afternoon 
he was lecturing on the slavery question in Music 
Hall to an audience composed of the most respect- 
able and intelligent citizens of the city of Boston, 
when the audience were suddenly startled by the 
yells of a great mob, composed of Roman 
Catholic Irish. They cried out, "Kill the 
friend of the nagur ! " While the doors at 
the Winter Street entrance were fastened and 
held against the mob's attacks, Mr. Phillips 
was hurried out of the Tremont Street entrance by 
his friends into a hack which they had in waiting 
for him, the driver drove rapidly down Tremont 
Street to Boylston Street, from there to Essex 
Street, where Mr. Phillips resided, the howling 
mob following in the rear, and yelling, "Kill the 
friend of the nagur I " Some of Mr. Phillips' friends 
had ran across lots and got there just before the 
hack drove up, and formed in two lines, one each 
side of the door, and when Mr. Phillips arrived he 
alighted and passed between them into the house. 
Those men then stood with their backs to his door 
and kept that howling Irish mob at bay for some 
twenty minutes, until the police arrived in sufficient 
numbers to disperse them. Within an hour all was 
quiet, and every mother's son of those cowards had 
slunk into their hiding places-among the slums of 
the South Cove. 



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Soon after came John Brown's raid at Harper's 
Ferry, and the Civil War soon commenced in 
earnest. 

Where was Paddy about this time ? Let us see. 
Paddy from some reason or other has seemed to 
take naturally to the Democratic party, and at this 
time that party was opposed to making war on the 
South, as the South at that time was pretty solidly 
Democratic, and it seemed to Democrats like fight- 
ing their friends and political associates ; and for 
that reason they were very backward about coming 
forward to fill up the ranks, and Paddy kept in the 
rear of all. 

Soon the draft came ; the Union army was hard 
pressed for men, the prison doors were opened to 
all criminals who would enlist, and these were about 
the first McGintys that entered the Union army. 
Then drafting commenced, and the Roman Catholic 
Irish of New York City commenced a riot ; and be- 
fore it was ended these cowards, these wolves of our 
civilization, had murdered hundreds of innocent 
and defenceless colored men, women, and children. 
At the same time this same class commenced a riot 
in Boston, and broke into the gun stores in Dock 
Square, with the intention of getting firearms with 
which to murder the innocent and defenceless 
colored men, women, and children of Boston. But 
thanks to the energetic Mayor and Governor of that 
time the riot was soon quelled, with but small loss 
of life ; and those principally among the ranks of thQ 



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rioters, these cowardly assassins, found the descend- 
ants of the Pilgrims and of the veterans of '76 too 
much for them. Then cam.e the offering of large 
bounties to men who would enlist ; then Paddy began 
to come forward, — he was ready then to fight for his 
adopted country. This fact cannot be denied, as 
the rosters of the enlisted men of that date can be 
seen at the State House of any New England State, 
and "by their names ye shall know them." 

Then came bounty-jumping and desertions. 
Paddy had got a handsome sum for enlisting, 
either from some State, or from some private indi- 
vidual for whom he was to go as a substitute. 
Before he reached the seat of war he would desert, 
and enlist in some other city or State, and secure 
another pile of bounty money. This was known as 
bounty-jumping, and the list of deserters and bounty- 
jumpers which is kept on file at every State House 
will prove that the McGintys got there every time. 
There are some of the so-called leaders of the 
Roman Catholic Irish of to-day who would like to ob- 
literate the memory of these cold facts from the pub- 
lic mind. They pronounce eulogies on Mr. Phillips. 
They get up Wendell Phillips Clubs,~a little differ- 
ent from the kind they would have liked to have 
used on him if bold men had not come to his res- 
cue. They prate about the brave Irish who were so 
ready to go to the front in defense of their adopted 
country ; but history has been made, the rosters are 
3afe, and open to the public. Facts are cold and 



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stubborn things, and truth will eventually come to 
the front, no matter what barriers are placed before 
her. 

"And phwat about Sheridan, and his ride?" 
exclaims some McGinty. Well, as a matter of fact, 
according to a statement of a correspondent of a 
New York daily p'aper , who was present at that battle, 
Sheridan that night was off on a bum, away from his 
post of duty, when the enemy met and defeated our 
army, or that part of it under his command. No 
man knew better than he that unless something 
was done to change the state of affairs, his life was 
not worth a picayune ; he would be disgraced, and 
possibly shot. This made him desperate, as it 
naturally would any man under the same circum- 
stances, and he did what he could to retreive his own 
personal fortune. His luck happened to be with 
him ; but, reader, how many poor privates lost their 
lives that day? How many mothers were made 
widows, how many children fatherless, by a 
drunken bummer being away from his post of duty ? 
This may be strong language, but let the truth be 
spoken without fear or favor. Who can deny the 
above facts ? Honor to whom honor is due. If the 
veterans of to-day would speak their minds, they 
would tell you that one fourth of the men who lost 
their lives in the Union army might have returned 
alive to their families, were it not for the incapacity 
and drunkenness of many of those who were in 
command when they went into battle. Is not this 



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the same man who is quoted as saying that "the 
only good Indian he ever knew was a dead one"? 
Would it not be fully as appropriate and true if be 
had applied it to his own breed and creed, the 
Roman Catholic Irish ? When men of this class are 
made heroes, we are reminded of one of Josh Bill- 
ing's philosophic sayings which reads as follows : 
" Take all the good luk out of this world, and mil- 
lionaires and heroes would be dredful skarse." 



CHAPTEE II. 

THE PEESENT. 

During the war a great many American laborers 
and mechanics 'who enlisted were killed ; many 
others, when the war ended, emigrated South or 
West ; many others were incapacitated for labor by 
wounds and exposure. In the meantime the Roman 
Catholic Irish having learned, or partly learned, the 
several trades most "in demand, as marble workers, 
stonecutters, masons, plasterers, painters, brick- 
layers, slaters, plumbers, and shoemakers, have 
formed a combination known as the Knights of 
Labor and crowded representatives of other nation- 
alities out ; so much so that it is almost impossible 
for a Protestant to get a day's work in either of 
those lines of business. 

A few years ago a Roman Catholic Irishman in 
Pennsylvania, by the name of Terence Powderly, got 
the idea into his head to organize Roman Catholic 
Irish workingmen, throughout the length and 
breadth of the land, under the name of the Knights 
of Labor. Whether this idea originated in the 
head of Powderly, or was placed there by that long- 
headed old Jesuit, Cardinal Gibbons, is something 
to be guessed. At any rate, it is a well-known fact 
that Cardinal Gibbons and Powderly are very close 
friends. When the first meeting of the different 

v3o; 



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delegates at Richmond, Ya., was ended, the daily 
papers of that date mentioned Powderly as going 
directly to pay Gibbons a visit at Baltimore, before 
returning to his family in Pennsylvania ; and it 
looked to many people as though he had gone for 
further orders. Be this as it may, Powderly was 
spoken of as a good Roman Catholic ; and to prove 
it some of the daily papers stated that he had often 
assisted his pastor at mass when he was short of 
help. Now, who is there that can deny, with any 
semblance of truth, that the Knights of Labor is an 
Irish Roman Catholic organization ? Are not ninety 
per cent of its present officers rank and file Roman 
Catholic Irishmen? Why has the Federation of 
Labor been formed, and nearly all Protestants who 
were members of the Knights of Labor joined it? 
Was the cause of their leaving it because they had 
found this to be a fact? Was the master workman 
finding fat places for those of his own nationality 
and creed, to the exclusion of others? We leave 
the intelligent reader to judge for himself. With 
the birth of this organization the labor troubles, the 
length and breadth of the country, began. They 
do not allow employers to take any apprentices to 
learn trades, except such as they shall approve. 
These are invariably Roman Catholic Irish, or of 
their own breed and creed ; they even oblige an 
employer to pay the same wages to an incompetent 
Roman Catholic Irish workman that he does to a 
skilled workman, and this in a free country. 



V 



32 

So anxious and avaricious are this breed among 
us at the present day to get valuables and money 
belonging to other people, that they not only break 
into houses and stores in the nighttime, but stores 
are broken into in broad daylight in crowded 
thoroughfares, and in many instances the proprie- 
tors are maltreated or murdered, and private houses 
are plundered with impunity ; and as many of the 
police force in large cities are composed of this 
same breed, the majority of these criminals escape 
capture. The policeman Coughliu, who murdered 
Cronin, is a fair sample of the majority of these 
Roman Catholic Irish policemen. No heretic's ' 
property is safe on their beat. They have allowed 
heretics' property to be stolen without remonstrance. 
Take, for instance, the stealing piecemeal of a house 
in South Boston, the last timbers remaining becom- 
ing so weakened that thev fell on a crowd of these 
Roman Catholic Irish thieves, killing several of 
them. Several houses in Cambridge and Somerville 
have been stolen on the beats of this class of police- 
men ; by this same class of thieves, windows are 
broken, and buildings defaced, and the miscre- 
ants go scot free, and still these Roman Catholic 
Irish are daily added to the police force in large cities. 
And so anxious and avaricious are the female 
portion of these Roman Catholic Irish among us 
to get every cent, that they stoop to the lowest 
depths of human degradation to obtain or accom- 
plish that end. For a small sum they are ever 



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ready to expose their persons in swimming-niatcheg 
and low ballet dancing to the public gaze of rowdies 
and others in the dime museums and cheap theatres ; 
and, as a matter of fact, ninety-five per cent of all 
the prostitutes in New England to-day are' of this 
Roman Catholic Irish blood. 

When the late Civil "War ended, the two political 
parties, Eepublican and Democratic, outside of the 
Roman Catholic Irish, were about evenly divided ; 
and as the Irish are led by a few political leaders, 
and those leaders, by the priests in their ward or 
district, to whom they are obliged to look for votes 
to place them in political office, and they are there- 
after their tools, to do their every bidding, the 
parties were so evenly divided, that with whichever 
party these Roman Catholic Irish voted political 
success was insured ; and though by birth and 
nature these Irish are Democrats, yet they have 
always been open to purchase by the Republicans, 
provided they were the highest bidders, either with 
money or offices ; but a true Republican with Roman 
Catholic Irish blood in his veins, is as scarce as 
teeth in a hen's mouth. But to-day a change is 
coming over Paddy's dream. It is but a few years 
ago that he thought he owned the earth, politically 
at any rate, as one of the Roman Catholic papers of 
Boston, some three years ago, had the effrontery to 
publish a paragraph in which it claimed that Boston 
was now the Boston of the O'Briens, the O'Reillys, 
and the McGuires ; but there were a few voters in 



that old Puritan town that thought otherwise, and 
they went into, the next city election with their heart 
(Hart) in the contest, and have since proved the 
falsity of the statement. As a matter of fact the 
Roman Catholic Paddy has reached the height of 
liis political greatness, in America in general and 
in New England in particular ; and it is this fact 
that worries the cardinals, bishops, and priests, as 
well as their political leaders. 

As a matter of fact Roman Catholic Ireland has 
emigrated ; the majority of the bogtrotters are 
here, and to-day Germany, Norway, Sweden, Ital}^, 
Scotland, Wales, and England, are sending to our 
shores one hundred emigrants to Ireland's one ; these 
are mostly Protestants, and despise this Irish race, 
and more, if anything, than the native American. 
To offset this, and in order to prevent or retard this 
Protestant emigration, at the last session of Con- 
gress a bill was presented by a man named Gates 
(said to be a Roman Catholic). This bill was said 
to have emanated from Terence Powderly, or possi- 
bly it would be nearer the truth to say from his 
master. Cardinal Gibbons. This bill was disguised 
with tYue Jesuit skill under the head of a "Bill to 
Restrict Pauper Emigration." Now, bless Terence's 
little soul, didn't he know that the paupers had all 
got here in the shape of his Roman Catholic Irish 
countrymen from the boggy isle ? There is no other 
place in all Europe that has sent us i)aupers, as 
statistics will prove. Protestants are not paupers, 



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and never have been ; it is only the Church of 
Rome that makes paupers. They are the majority 
in every country that is under its control ; even the 
Protestant Irish (God bless and protect them) that 
come from that boggy isle are never known to 
come as paupers. This bill as presented obliged 
every person intending to emigrate to America to 
go to the American consul at the nearest port, and 
give him notice three months previous to embarking 
for America. Now think of a poor Protestant 
emio-rant comino; three hundred miles from the interior 
of Norway or Sweden, taking his family of eight 
or ten and going that distance and returning ; the 
expense would be as much and more to him than it 
would to come to America. He has also got to 
bring the consul a certificate of character, and also 
show or prove to him his ability to support his 
family when he arrives, and also pay a tax of fifty 
dollars. If this bill passes to become a law, it will 
practically prohibit future emigration of a good class 
of Protestant emigrants, which are greatly needed 
here at this time, and labor troubles will be of ten 
times the magnitude that they are at present, and 
the manufacturino: industries of the whole couutrv 
will be at the mercy of the Roman Catholic 
Irish. Now, if this bill had been passed and been 
enforced when Terence Powderly was an infant, 
Paddies and paupers would be as scarce in New Eng- 
land to-day as blooming roses in the open fields of 
Norway in winter. Bless you, Terence, you are fifty 



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years behind the times ! Frame your bill so as to 
send back the paupers and thieves that are here al- 
ready, and you will hit the nail square on the head. 
This bill, for some reason or other, did not get to a 
head at the last session, but Terence is on hand 
again. There are very few people outside of the 
leaders of the Democratic party who realize how 
near this same Powderly came to being the Demo- 
cratic nominee for President, at the time of Cleve- 
land's nomination. With Powderly as President, 
there would have been at Washington (not a Punch 
and Judy, but) a Terence and Bridget show, with 
old Gibbons as a manipulator of the puppets. 

Let every Protestant voter in this land of the free 
(too free for these Roman Catholic Irish) see to it 
that the Representative of his district in Congress 
does his duty, and uses his individual influence 
to squelch this bill. To-day Protestants are to 
Roman Catholics as six to one in these ^United 
States ; with the present influx by Protestant emi- 
gration, in the next decade they will be as ten to 
one ; and as this class of Protestants increase and 
multiply equally as fast as these Roman Catholic 
Irish, in a quarter of a century the Roman Catholic 
Irish will be to Protestants as one to twenty-five, 
and powerless religiously and politically. Stop the 
present Protestant emigration, and increase the 
Roman Catholic Irish ascendenc}^, religious and 
political, and within another quarter of a century 
you will have a religious war the like of which this 
world never saw. 



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The time is now ripe for a new political party. 
As there was a time for a Free-Soil party, it came, 
did its proper work, and passed on into eternity. 
Then there was the Know-Nothing party ; it also 
came, did its proper work, and passed on. Then 
came the Anti- 81a very party ; it did its proper work 
and passed on. The better element in the Demo- 
cratic party are disgusted with their Roman Catho- 
lic Irish contingent, and the time is ripe for a new 
party. There is no great public question to-day to 
keep the better element of both parties apart. The 
tariff question is a bugbear, being used by the 
political doughfaces and bread-and-butter politi- 
cians in the Democratic party who are in the politi- 
cal soup at present, and are anxious to get in the 
swim. This bugbear is only a political ruse, used 
to obtain votes in the future from ignorant voters 
throughout the length and breadth of the land, and 
not worth a moment's thought of an intelligent man. 
It is acknowledged that to-day the laboring man is 
better off in America than in any country on the 
face of the globe, then let us let well enough alone. 
Let all good men, Republican and Democrat, unite ; 
let us have a know-something or anti-Roman Catholic 
Irish party ; let the new political wave pass over 
the country, and more especially over New England, 
and let it relegate this class of voters back to their 
proper sphere and place. Men of New England, 
you have placed too many political pearls before 
these swine during the last decade. Their natures 



88 

are too low and depraved to properly appreciate 
them, and it is time they were placed before better 
men. 

It seems to be the endeavor of these Roman 
Catholic Irish to get some one of their number at the 
head as superintendent and director of the large 
establishments, and then comes the weeding out of 
heretics, and the placing in their places of his own 
breed and creed. Take for instance the labor de- 
partment of all large New England cities, the fire 
departments and the police force. Take the West 
End Railway laboring force, and the men at both 
ends of their cars ; this mode of procedure is 
kept alive by the Roman Catholic priests, know- 
ing as they do that for every dollar these men 
earn a tenth of it reaches their treasuries. These 
Jesuits are the fathers of the Chinese exclusion 
bill. By this act of Congress something for wash- 
ing has been saved to the Roman Catholic Irish 
washerwoman, and the Chinaman is kept from being 
converted to Protestantism ; for where could the 
heathen Chinee (so called) be easier or quicker 
Christianized than on American soil? The Jesuits 
are also responsible for the defeat of the Blair 
educational bill, by which it was intended to 
have the national Government appropriate mill- 
ions of dollars for the education of the colored 
men, women, and children of the South, in order 
that they might be educated and enlightened as to 
their political and other duties, and thereby make 



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good citizens in the future. Since its defeat, these 
Jesuits have flooded the South with Roman Catholic 
priests, and established a college in Baltimore for 
the purpose of turning out young Roman Catholic 
Irish priests, and none are allowed to enter its door 
but those who are willing to give the rest of their 
lives as missionaries for the conversion of the igno- 
rant colored population of the South (who are now 
Methodists) to Roman Catholicism. They have 
also established a universit}^ under the shadow of 
the United States capitol at Washington, and en- 
sconced therein a marble statue of the present Pope 
of Rome, being the preliminary, without doubt, of 
trying to place a live one there. There are two 
things about these Roman Catholic Irish that ap- 
pears to be common to the whole breed, and that is, 
that from the day they leave the cradle, to the day 
they go to their grave, the majority of them are beg- 
gars and thieves. This can only be accounted for by 
their low birth, origin, and breeding. The majority 
of them are brought up on murphy s, which is the 
lowest of the vegetable kingdom, and being bred in 
the same hut with dogs and swine would naturally 
obliterate any sense of shame, — a virtue which these 
people always lack. If one could be found who had 
the least sense of shame about them, man, woman, 
or child, it would be the making of the fortune of 
the manager of some dime museum to have them as 
an exhibit. They go to the almshouse or the house 
of correction with as much alacrity, and with a& 
little shauie, as they go to mass. 



40 

It is this breed which has the credit of furnishing 
all the assassins and would-be assassins of the nine- 
teenth century ; for instance, our honored and la- 
mented President, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 
by a Roman Catholic. Soon after. President Gar- 
field was assassinated by another ; also, the poor 
defenseless colored men and women in the streets 
of New York during the war of the Rebellion, as 
also it was the Roman Catholic Irish that furnished 
the assassins who did such devilish cowardly work 
at Phoenix Park, Dublin. It was these cowardly, 
would-be assassins that placed the dynamite in the 
hold of the steamship Oregon, which now lies with 
its cargo at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ; and 
but for almost a miracle hundreds of innocent men, 
women, and children would have gone down with it. 
And these same Roman Catholic Irish have fur- 
nished the assassins who recently murdered poor 
Cronin in Chicago, to say nothing of the Protestant- 
Irish men and women who have been ambushed, 
waylaid, and murdered during the last decade by this 
same class on the greensward of Ireland. This class 
seems to be born cowards ; any nation that breeds 
assassins naturally breeds cowards. The hoodlum 
element in our midst, which are always, without an 
exception, the American born of these Roman 
Catholic Irish, dudeen-sucking sons of bogtrot- 
ters, are the wolves of our civilization, and seem 
to have the same nature as the wolf. Singly 
they are as meek as a lamb, but collectively or 



41 

in packs, as they usually travel, they exhibit the 
same disposition as the wolf, going as far at times 
as to rob or destroy each other. There is a certain 
prominent Irishman who occasionally lectures in 
different New England States, taking for his subject 
"Celebrated Irishmen." He forgets to mention to 
his audiences that the majority of those celebrated 
Irishmen were not Roman Catholic Irishmen, but 
Protestants. He forgets to tell them that if they 
would go to Charlestown States Prison, or any other 
States Prison in New England, and hear the roll-call, 
that they could learn the names of more celebrated 
Eoman Catholic Irishmen (no Protestant) in half an 
hour than he could name in a day. Celebrated ! 
What for? For thieving, robbery, and murder. 
At a certain meeting or hullabaloo held, not many 
moons ago, not many miles from Boston, got up 
with the intention of frightening Johnny Bull and 
firing the Irish heart, it was reported that a certain 
leading Roman Catholic Irishman made a speech, 
recommending the use of dynamite to annihilate 
Ireland's enemies, if the daily papers of the fol- 
lowing day reported his speech correctly. Now, 
any man who will in this enlightened nineteenth 
century advocate the use of dynamite is a sneak, a 
coward, and an assassin at heart, and after such 
public speech should be put out of any country for 
the country's good. See the contrast ! Here is 
Charles Stuart Parnell, a Protestant, using every 
legal and legitimate means to better the condition 



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of his native country ; and bad the Roman Catholic 
Irish micks with whom he is surrounded been kept 
in the background, Ireland would be ten years 
nearer to Home Rule than she is to-day. Johnny 
Bull is notorious for being easier led than driven. 

The cowardice of the male portion of this race is 
seen whenever a riot is occasioned by a horse-car 
or labor strike. They invariably crowd their 
women and children to the front, but these cowards, 
they keep back well to the rear, and throw stones 
and missiles ; and it has been recently confessed by 
a Roman Catholic Irishman that he was one of four 
delegated at Chicago, that if the police interfered 
with the meeting of the Anarchists, they were to 
throw the bomb, — and they did, and with what effect 
is too well known ; and innocent men have been 
hung for a crime they never committed. There 
were thousands who believed them innocent at the 
time of the trial, for it was so like the Irish method 
of warfare, and so little like the German. Their 
past history proves that they are not cowardly dy- 
namiters or assassins. They marched to victory 
like men when they conquered the last Napoleon. 
See the contrast when compared with those cele- 
brated Roman Catholic Irish Fenians, who a few 
years ago marched so boldly up to the Canada 
line to whip England over the backs of the Ka- 
nucks, but when they got sight of the enemy they 
turned face and travelled double-quick home again. 

It is frequently said that the Chinaman comes 



48 

here, makes money, and goes back to China to 
remain till death shall call him hence. Now, as a 
matter of fact, has he not given value in labor for 
every dollar that he takes away? Is it not far 
better than if he had sent it home, and with it 
brought back hundreds of thousands of paupers 
and thieves, as the Roman Catholic Irish have been 
doing the last quarter of a century? As these 
Chinese rarely carry an average of over five hundred 
dollars, as that sum is a great competence in China, 
is he any worse than the Irishman who takes his 
family for two or three months sojourn in the old 
country, which costs him a thousand or fifteen hun- 
dred dollars, which he has stolen from some city 
treasury, after the manner of Maloney of New 
York, and Burke of New Orleans, and hundreds of 
others of the same kith, kin, and creed who might 
be mentioned? 

These Irish affect to despise anything English. 
They believe in their priests ; they prate about the 
beauties of ould Ireland and the Irish language ; but 
let us see, — are not most of them, after they have 
accumulated some of this world's goods, so dis- 
gusted with their native country, their low origin, 
and their former common Christian names, that 
they try to screen themselves and their origin, in 
the second generation, by giving their children the 
most approved and pleasant sounding English 
Christian names to be had? Forty years ago, if 
you should have thrown a stone into a crowd of a 



44 

dozen Irishmen, you would have hit either Mike, 
Pat, or Dennis ; not so now, — it is John, Frank, or 
William. No christening of spalpeens as Mike, 
Pat, Dr Dennis in this day and generation, — not 
much ; they want to be dacent people with dacent 
names. The Paddies of to-day want none of the 
bog mud in theirs. How about the female portion? 
Well, forty years ago it was Bridget, Honora, or 
Maggie, but these are a thing of the past ; to-day 
it is Lillian McGinty, Mamie McSorley, and Bertha 
Flanigan, — and still these Irish do so despise any- 
thing English, you know ! We often see the Irish- 
American mentioned in the daily papers, but never 
German- American, ^wede- American, Scotch- Amer- 
ican, or English-American ; no, these latter are not 
given to stealing what does not belong to them as 
are the former. When oil and water freely mix 
then will there be Irish-Americans ; when by curl- 
ing a wolf's hair and banging his tail you can 
make a lamb of him, then and not till then look for 
a true Irish- American. The look of the lamb may 
be there, but so is the nature of the wolf ; the look 
will wear off quicker by far than the nature will dis- 
appear. The name of Irish-American every time it 
is used in public or private, taking the Irish antece- 
dents into consideration, is a disgrace and a shame 
to every true American, son or daughter of the 
Pilgrims, or of the veterans of '76. Even the Irish 
criminals at the bar of justice of late, in order 
to hide their origin, give English names, such as 



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John Smith and George Brown, etc. To this fact 
every police officer in the large cities will testify. 
And it has also come to pass at the present 
time, that when any Roman Catholic Irishman 
has accumulated a little money, so that he feels 
a little above the common Mick, and is able to 
keep one or two servants, it is a notorious fact 
that he never employs any of his own class 
or creed, but hires a colored or Swede man or 
woman, or of some other nationality than his 
own, as the case may be. There are two princi- 
pal reasons why he does this. First, he knows the 
general cussedness of the race, and their proneness 
to pilfer and steal, and never feels safe with one 
under his roof. Second, he knows that as long as 
he has one of them in his employ, that all the family 
secrets are liable to be exposed at the confessional ; 
he knows how it is himself, for the chances are that 
he has been there ; and if Protestants who employ 
Roman Catholic help in their families did but know 
that all their family secrets were told the parish 
priest by these servants at the confessional, and a 
record kept of them bj^ this same priest, and known 
by him as the heretic black list, we think they would 
take heed and reflect before hiring and taking them 
into their employ. 

Many good people bewail the growth of the Ro- 
man Catholic Church in America. They forget, or 
perhaps they have never stopped to think, that one 
dollar out of every ten which they pay to this class 



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of help goes to strengthen the Roman Catholic 
Church in New England. There is a certain 
good old Methodist deacon, not a hundred miles 
from Boston, who gives to his church for its sup- 
port, say, $500 a year. His pay-roll to Roman 
Catholic Irishmen amounts to more than $100,000 
a year; so that indirectly he contributes $5,000 to 
the Roman Catholic Church, — ten times as much as 
to his own, — and at the prayer-meeting he calls on 
the Lord to retard the progress of the Romish Church 
in our midst. If spoken to about the matter, he 
will say this is all the kind of help he can get for 
his foundry ; or, in other words, my business must 
not be interrupted, but must go on, even if the 
Lord's goes to the Devil. And so it is going on 
from day to day all through New England ; one 
tenth of all that Protestants are paying to their 
Roman Catholic help goes directly or indirectly into 
the treasuries of the Roman Catholic churches, and 
then they hold up both hands in holy horror at the 
rapid growth of this church, which were it not for 
their past unthinking, indirect contributions, there 
would not be one Roman Catholic Church in exist- 
ence to-day where there are twenty; they claiming 
with the good deacon, that this is all the class of 
help that they can get, when as a matter of fact 
there are thousands of good Protestants, better men 
and women, lying idle all over the country, some of 
them even committing suicide, because of lack of 
employment to aid them to supply those dependent 



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on them, having too much self-respect to beg or go 
to the almshouse. Not so with the shamefaced Irish ; 
they go to the almshouse with apparently as much 
pleasure as they would to visit a friend. They are 
notorious as the class who wish to get something for 
nothing. They vote away the hard-earned taxes of 
Protestants to erect statues to Roman Catholic 
Irish drunkards, to be placed in our public squares 
and commons ; when if the' money w^ere to come di- 
rect from their own pockets, these monuments would 
be as scarce as those erected to perpetuate the 
memory of Adam. 

Many people seem to think that the boycott origi- 
nated in Ireland within a few years past ; but, as a 
matter of fact, Protestants have been boycotted 
here in New England by the Roman Catholic Irish 
for this quarter of a century past. If a Protestant 
congregation wants a church built, if a Roman 
Catholic Irishman underbids twenty respectable or 
responsible Protestant contractors fifty or one hun- 
dred dollars, he gets the contract. Not so with the 
Roman Catholic priest ; he is wiser ; he makes a 
business of putting Roman Catholic dollars into 
Roman Catholic purses, knowing that by so doing 
many of them will get back into his money box 
again. He is not so foolish as to turn them into a 
channel that runs in an opposite direction from his 
church ; and he tells his congregation openly and 
at the confessional to spend their money only with 
Roman Catholics and those of their creed. Let an 



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Irishman open a small grocery in a basement, and 
» the McGintys from far and near will trade with 
him, and it will not be long before he'll own a block. 
Go with me to the large dry and fancy goods stores 
in Boston or vicinity which are owned and run by 
Roman Catholic Irish, and every employe without 
exception is o£ the same creed and kin. Watch the 
crowd who come and go ; ninety-five per cent are 
Roman Catholic Irish, following the instructions of 
their priests, while the other five per cent are 
thoughtless Protestants. Notice the difference of 
the large stores managed by thoughtless Protest- 
ants : ninety per cent of the help in some of these 
are Roman Catholic Irish, and with the stealing 
behind the counters as well as in front, it is a won- 
der to many of their patrons how they ever accumu- 
late enough for a competency, unless it is after the 
same manner as the Dutchman, who said he "lost 
something on every thing he sold, and the way 
he made anything was because he sold so much." 
When will Protestants open their eyes, and work 
Protestant dollars into Protestant pockets after the 
manner of these Roman Catholics? Their example 
in this respect is well worth following. Take, for 
instance, the street hawkers of vegetables, fruit, 
and meats, — Roman Catholic Irish to a man. The 
majority of these men are back-door thieves, and 
cheat you in quality, quantity, weight, and count; 
they place the large fruit on top, and give you the 
small and rotten from the bottom of the pile, when 
you purchase? 



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Do you ever stop to think that every dollar paid 
these hawkers is sq much from the till of some de- 
cent Protestant, who is paying rent and doing a 
square, responsible, and legitimate business ? Would 
it not be better for your sons and daughters, and 
the country in the future, if the money you pay for 
the necessaries of life went into Protestant pockets, 
remembering as you ought that every tenth 
dollar you spend in the other direction goes 
into the treasury of the Roman Catholic Church, 
and from there to the support of Roman 
Catholic churches and parochial schools, to be the 
curse of our country and your children in the near 
future. As a matter of fact, many of the Roman 
Catholic priests are silent partners, and have capital 
invested in many of the largest retail stores in the 
largest New England cities, which are managed by 
Roman Catholic Irishmen. This is no secret ; and, 
my innocent reader, were you ever informed that 
these English syndicates who are buying up the 
breweries and other paying industries from Maine 
to California, were composed of men who have been 
receiving contributions for poor Ireland ? Who 
would ever suspect an Irish leader in Parliament of 
being a trustee for an English syndicate? What 
would be more ridiculous? The supposed canard of 
the Pope of Rome investing $400,000,000 in America 
was not so much of a canard as some people have 
been led to suppose. A published list in the daily 
papers (which is carefully avoided) of the trustees 



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of these syndicates would soon enlighten the public. 
This is an easy matter to do, as they are all to be 
found in the public. records. 

There are many things deeper than this being 
planned to-day bv the Jesuits in America. For 
instance, let us consider the political aspect of the 
Roman Catholic Centennial, recently held at Balti- 
more, and the Pan-American Congress held at the 
same time. What is the meaning of Pan ? Accord- 
ing to Webster, ''the ancients believed him to be 
the god of shepherds ; he is usually represented 
as combining the form of a man with that of a beast 
(the Roman Catholic Irish priest) , having the body 
of a man, a red face with a flat nose, horns upon 
his head, and the legs, thighs, tail, and feet of a 
goat." Reader, did it ever strike you that there 
was a singular coincidence in the assembling of the 
Roman Catholic Centennial, engineered by long- 
headed old Jesuit Cardinal Gibbons, and the assem- 
bling of the Pan-American Congress, occurring as 
they did at one and the same time? The Pan- 
American Congress was supposed to be engineered 
by James G. Blaine, but later events make matters 
look as though they both were conceived in the 
brain of Gibbons, the Jesuit. Was lUaine his 
tool? 

The Pan-American delegates were seated in front 
of Gibbons at the Centennial when he remarked 
that "America would soon be Roman Catholic," 
meaning that the majority of its inhabitants would. 



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What gave the old man faith to make that utter- 
ance? Were these Pan-American delegates here 
to make a commercial treaty with the Govern- 
ment, or is it a deep-laid plan of the Jesuits 
to make the majority in America Roman Cath- 
olic, as Cardinal Gibbons said they would be. 
The delegates were Roman Catholics to a man, 
and each represented a country composed of 
Roman Catholics. They have been taken through- 
out the length and breadth of the land, from Maine 
to California, and feasted at the best hotels at the 
Government's expense. Now, was this to show them 
what a wealthy and prosperous people we are. And 
have inducements been held out to them to go back 
to their countries and bring about, or to work up, a 
sentiment in those countries for annexation to the 
United States? Was it not Blaine who wished to 
annex San Domingo in Grant's time? Is he not 
working his every card for the annexation of Cuba 
to-day? The annexation of these Roman Catholic 
countries would give the old Jesuit Gibbons the 
Roman Catholic majority in this country he is long- 
ing for. What occasion did a Commercial Con- 
gress have to hold a secret session with locked 
doors, as did these Pan- Americans at Washington? 
It was a noticeable fact, that all the prominent 
Roman Catholics throughout the country hastened 
to pay their respects to these Pan- Americans when 
they were in their vicinity. 
At the time these Pan-Americans were assembled 



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here, Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, steps 
quietly down and out, probably at the request of his 
acknowledged master, the Pope of Pome. Being 
the only monarchy left in South America, it must 
become a republic before it could be annexed to these 
United States, and its delegate was already here. 
Dom Pedro had hardly left his native land before 
the archbishop, who represents the Pope of Rome 
in Brazil, rises up and blesses the republic, thus 
carrying out the programme of his master. Now, 
was not this Pan's Congress ? Was not Gibbons the 
originator of it? Does not the look of every cardi- 
nal, bishop, and priest in America show a combina- 
tion of the brute and the man ? Gibbons is Ameri- 
can born ; his is the best chance of any man living 
of being the next Pope. Through him old Pope 
Leo is at present installed (in marble) in the 
University at Washington. Is he not expecting to 
be there in the flesh soon? 

With the Pan-American States annexed to the 
United States, and Gibbons at Washington as Pope 
in 1894, and Gibbons as nominee for President in 
1896, and, by his majority Roman Catholic vote, 
elected and made President of these United States, 
you have a Pope-President ; and what are you going 
to do about it? Has he not been legally and con- 
stitutionally elected? Why did the Pan-American 
delegates hold a secret session in Washington, from 
which the reporters were excluded ? How about that 
private dinner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New 



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York, at which a select few were invited, among 
them notably a rank Roman Catholic who is now at 
the head of our army, and who is reported as saying 
not long since, that "he would as quick have his 
children go to a bawdy house as to our public 
schools." If this man did say what it is reported 
he said, is he the proper man for the public posi- 
tion he holds? Would he not show a little self- 
respect by passing in his resignation papers ? His 
son is a Jesuit priest, and, if reports are true, his 
daughter is a guest at the Vatican, at Rome, and 
probably for some well-rendered service his wife 
has been presented with the Order of the Rose by 
the Pope of Rome. Taking everything into con- 
sideration, and putting this and that together, does 
not that congress look more like old Pan-Gibbons 
Roman Catholic Congress than a Pan-American 
Commercial Congress? 

Their first move has been to connect North and 
and South America by Railroad, — this scheme is 
now developing ; next comes the annexation busi- 
ness, and with that Gibbons' prophecy will come 
true. Let every true Protestant and friend of 
America and her Constitution be awake to the con- 
sequences that will result from the successful carry- 
ing out of this Jesuit scheme. 



CHAPTER III. 

FUTURE. 

My Protestant reader, the future of the Roman 
Catholic Irish in New England depends upon your- 
self. If for the next fifty years you go on employing 
and patronizing them, as your fathers and mothers 
have for these past fifty years, thereby strengthen- 
ing the Roman Catholic Church by their indirect 
contributions, your children and your children's 
children will feel its blight and curse to a greater 
extent than the men and women of the South have 
for the past quarter of a century, and are to-day, the 
curse of African slavery, which has been entailed 
on them by their parents and grandparents. But 
African slavery is but a trifle as compared with the 
supremacy of Roman Catholicism ; the former may 
destroy the body, but the latter destroys both body 
and soul. Your grandfathers and grandmothers, in 
their innocence, nursed the infant adder which has 
nearly reached its maturity ; its sting to-day is of 
the deadliest poison. It has already struck a blow at 
our public schools, which are the foundation of our 
liberties ; let it be strangled before striking the sec- 
ond blow : age will give it strength. By decreasing 
its income you can strike a fatal blow to its future 
growth. The quickest and most eflficacious method 

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to rid a house of rats is to starve them out. There 
are other rats than four-legged ones to which this 
principle may be applied, with profit to the commu- 
nity and the State. Johnny Bull understands this 
principle, and has applied it where it would do the 
most good, and the consequence is, New England 
has the rats. But the ladies of New England, who 
are foremost iu every good work, and quick to 
know a good thing when they see it, are already at 
the front. The following tells the story. 

Though the majority of the female employment 
offices in New England to-day are managed by 
Roman Catholic Irish, still, they are very careful 
not to advertise Irish help, as can readily be seen 
by perusing the proper column in the daily papers. 
To entice their customers in, they advertise Nova 
Scotia, Swedish, German, and Scotch girls, even 
though they have not one about their premises. 
But when a lady applies at the office, she finds 
dozens of Roman Catholic Irish girls, and much 
effort is made to palm one off on her ; but of late 
the trick does not work, as they are not wanted, but 
a Scotch or Swedish girl can hardly cast a shadow 
across the threshold of an office before she is en- 
gaged, be she ever so green. If men of business 
would apply the same principle to those they em- 
ploy, and put none but Protestants on guard, Roman 
Catholics would soon be obliged to go begging for 
ducats in order to hold their own ; and give atten- 
tion to politics, and see that Protestants got their 



56 

share of the city pap, which is being poured ex- 
clusively into the laps of Roman Catholic Irish 
laborers in every city in New England. Let them 
elect only such men to office as they can depend on 
to see the principle faithfully carried out ; the dough- 
face and bread-and-butter politician is getting al- 
together too numrerous for the good of the community 
just at this present time. 

The question which faces the respectable, law- 
abiding Protestant population of New England of 
to-day is, how to get rid of these Roman Catholic 
Irish hoodlums, paupers, and thieves. A little scheme 
after the following plan might be a help toward 
getting rid of a majority of them, and at the same 
time be a profitable one to those interested in it. 
Let a syndicate be formed (as English syndicates 
seem to be the fashion at the present time, let it be 
an English one ; Johnny Bull's past successful man- 
agement of the race would be an advantage to him) . 
Let the syndicate purchase several thousand acres 
of land in Alaska, bordering upon a good harbor or 
seaport, and christen it Hibernia or New Ireland ; 
let them erect large buildings for manufactories of 
such imperishable goods as there is a market for ; 
anything made from wood or timber, or wood-pulp 
might do well to start with, as there would probably 
be abundance of timber on the land purchased, 
wagon and carriage wheels, staves, shingles, laths, 
clapboards, pails, etc. When ready for business 
let them contract with the different governors of 



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New England to take all of their paupers and all 
criminals who have been sentenced to correctional 
institutions for six months or upward ; let the States 
deliver these prisoners at some designated wharf in 
Boston, where shall be waiting for their reception 
a vessel or steamer belonging to the syndicate, the 
prisoners to be transported and taken care of, 
clothed and fed by the syndicate during the term 
of their sentence, free of expense to the States, for 
the labor that can be obtained from them during 
that time ; all sentences to commence from the 
day they arrive in Alaska. This would relieve the 
New England States of one half of the Roman 
Catholic Irish ; one fourth more would probably 
soon follow. Let those who had been guilty of 
robbery or any crime that wo aid entitle them to 
from five to ten years' sentence be branded on their 
right cheeks with a large letter C, and those who 
had been guilty of murder be branded with a large 
letter C on each cheek. By this plan it would be 
known to the general public that they were criminals, 
and they could be quickly recognized as such. It 
is about time to treat criminals as criminals, and 
then when pardoned or released they will not be 
committing more atrocious crimes than before in 
order to get back into prison, in order to get less 
work and better fare than they can get outside, as 
has been the case in numerous instances. Let them 
have such treatment as to dread a return and you'll 
haye less crime in the community. Let the syndi- 



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cate refuse to allow any one of these criminals 
passage back to New England at the expira- 
tion of their sentences on its vessels, but leave 
them to return as best they can. Let the syndicate 
also lay out a city in town lots, and build houses, 
and lease or sell them to those who wished or were 
obliged to remain, as no doubt that hundreds of the 
criminals, male and female, after being released 
would unite their fortunes and settle down to 
business. Let the syndicate have a certain number 
of steamers, so that one would leave the wharf 
in Boston on a certain day of each and every week ; 
there would be no doubt but that they would have 
a full complement of steerage passengers every 
trip for years to come, and every shipload landed 
in this Alaskan city would naturally cause a rise in 
their real estate. Let them purchase gold and 
silver or other mines, and let all criminals marked 
with the letter C be put in them to work ; and as 
those with the C on each cheek would have life 
sentences, they would always remain there ; for if 
they should escape to the States they would be 
easily recognized and returned. This would settle 
the hanging question. Let all murderers be given a 
life sentence, branded, and turned over to the syn- 
dicate. There is no doubt the criminals would be 
very thankful for this state of things, as it would be 
so much pleasanter than hanging, and soft-hearted 
men and women would be delighted to think that 
the hangman, like the Dodo, was a thing of the 



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past. This letting out of criminals by the State 
is nothing new, as it bas been practiced in the 
South this past quarter of a century. 

The free ocean trip which each 'one would get 
would only be carrying out the liberal policy for 
which New England has always been noted as prac- 
ticing toward its criminals, for it is a well known 
and established fact that the majority of them at 
present in our houses of correction are better off, 
both as to clothing, shelter and f^re, than they were 
when at liberty ; and many of them have been known 
to commit crime in order to get into the State insti- 
tutions during the winter months. Then the vessels 
of the syndicate when returning could bring back 
the goods that had been manufactured by the 
criminals ; and no doubt but that their stock would 
soon be at a premium, for when their lumber gave 
out they could manufacture boots, shoes, or cloth- 
ing, etc. They would not be troubled with the 
interference of the order known as the Knights of 
Labor, or the eight-hour days. From sunrise to 
sunset was the length of the labor day of our 
fathers, and ought to be good enough for the 
ordinary criminal of to-day. 

Let the thinking reader stop and consider what a 
great 3^early debt would be lifted from the shoulders 
of the State, or in other words from the respectable 
people in the State, and with how much more of a 
feeling and sense of security would every citizen 
have when he retired at night, that his family and 



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property were safe, knowing as he would that these 
Irish thieves and murderers were far away in 
Alaska ; and if he should be the lucky possessor of 
a block of the syndicate's stock, there might be a 
tender spot found in his heart, whereby he would 
feel glad that they still lived in the enjoyment of 
good health and strength. If the syndicate did not 
realize a cent on their manufactures, with the weekly 
influx of so many criminals, it would be but a few 
years before the profits on the rise in their real 
estate would be enormous. They would not be 
troubled by prohibitory laws, and it is said that 
there is a good profit in whiskey, and their released 
Irish convicts, when their sentence had expired, 
would probably want to set up shop at once on some 
corner lot, and remain there to grow up with the 
country. They could lease farms in the suburbs to 
others, and purchase their products for their crimi- 
nals. In a short time Australia, which was colo- 
nized by this same breed of criminals, would have 
to stir herself, or she would be left in the back- 
ground. But laying aside all frivolity, what a 
change would there be for the better in all our 
large towns and cities. Within three years from 
the time the syndicate commenced operations, the 
Roman Catholic Irish in New England would be to 
Pi'otestants as one to ten. The towns would be 
able to sell their poor-farms, and the State its 
Houses of Correction and State prisons, and the 
remaining respectable citizens would be relieved of 



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one half of the taxes with which they are at present 
burdened, and a burden and a curse would be re- 
moved at one and the same time. 

These Roman Catholic Irish, through their Jesuit 
priests, are each year having laws enacted for their 
own especial benefit ; for instance, the Chinese 
Exclusion Act (which is a disgrace to any free 
country), which was enacted to protect the Irish 
washerwoman as well as to prevent the Chinamen 
from coming under Protestant influences. Take the 
contract labor law. Now, if a manufacturing firm 
in New England wishes to employ skilled labor, 
they are obliged to hire those of Roman Catholic 
Irish blood, which most of them object to, as since 
the enactment of this law they cannot bring skilled 
Protestant workmen from European countries. The 
Jesuits felt safe in having this law enacted, as it 
only excludes Protestants ; for the boggy isle has 
no skilled workmen, as sucking a dudeen, drinking 
Irish whiskey, and digging bog mud for fuel are the 
principal industries there. But as these pauper 
bogtrotters are being landed on our shores every 
week, as the contract labor law does not reach 
them, let one of these Gilhooly's be employed for 
thirty days by a mason to help lay a drain-pipe, 
within the next thirty days you will see a large sign 
on the main street, with gilt letters, reading, 
"Michael Gilhooly, Sanitary Engineer" ; and this 
is a fair specimen of the skilled workmen one is 
obliged to employ, for by culling under prices they 
goon crowd the decent man out. 



6^ 

These Roman Catholic Irish resort to all sorts of 
subterfuges to accumulate riches, as also to retain 
them. These lessons they have learned from their 
Jesuit priests ; for instance, in times past these 
priests have, with the help of Protestant dollars, 
built institutions in New P^ngland, more especially 
in Boston, and given them such names as would 
attract the attention of charitable Protestants ; for 
instance, such as the '• Home for Destitute Chil- 
dren," the " Little Sisters of the Poor." Many 
misguided Protestants have, in times past, contrib- 
uted liberally for the support of these institutions, 
thinking that by so doing they were doing God ser- 
vice. But they have since realized that they were 
only helping to fill the coffers of the Roman Catholic 
Church, and thereby helping to strengthen them, 
and increase the number of their churches in New 
England. These institutions are nothing more nor 
less than parochial schools under another name. It 
has in times past been the custom of these shrewd 
Jesuit priests to send out women whom they have 
under their control, whom they designate as " Sisters 
of Charity." These women array themselves in 
special robes, and put on a very meek look and 
appearance, but their faces beneath their deep 
bonnets readily betray their Irish origin ; these are 
sent out among Protestants begging (beiug Irish 
they take to it naturally), and through them thou- 
sands of Protestant dollars have found their way 
into Roman Catholic treasuries. 



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The daily papers of the present time in New 
England, more especially those of the largest circu- 
lation, if not under Jesuit control, seem, from their 
contents, to be largely under Roman Catholic Irish 
control ; for instance, Pat McCarthy's goat has 
eaten some indigestible article, possibly a broken 
bean-pot or tin can, and this causes his death. The 
next morning the paper with the largest circulation 
has not only the pedigree of that goat way back to 
the one that Noah let out of the ark, but has the 
picture of Pat McCarthy, and his autobiography 
and pedigree way back to the time of Cain, who 
(if we may judge from the present representatives 
of the race among us) was the originator of the 
Irish race ; but there are some daily papers, to their 
credit be it said, that do not, and are not obliged 
to fill up their columns with trash of this kind, in 
order to insure eight pages of reading matter for 
the perusal of the public, the majority of whom, 
daily, see' more of this race than they care to, and 
reading their too-well-known pedigree is only a 
waste of time to the average reader. 

It is a noticeable fact that the Roman Catholic 
priest never does anything for the starving poor of 
his parish ; he leaves that for the town or city 
authorities to do. When money gets into their hands 
it is never known to leave, unless it is for their 
personal, or tine church's benefit ; and the last 
person in this world whom a Roman Catholic looks 
to for help, if starving, is the Roman Catholic 



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priest. They will beg of heretics, or steal, before 
going to their priest, as no one knows better than 
they that it would be time wasted and thrown away ; 
but there are thousands of these Eoman Catholic 
Irish paupers in the large cities of New England, 
who will manage to keep out of the public charitable 
institutions until after the elections, as their politi- 
cal leaders and priests hold them in hand like so 
many sheep until they have voted as they may 
direct. By referring to the records of almshouses 
and public institutions, it will be found that the 
O'Flanagan paupers and criminals, immediately after 
the elections, begin to arrive five to one as to what 
they did previous to election; and in order to get 
there, and have good feed and winter quarters for the 
remaining months of winter, many of them steal a tub 
of butter, a pair of shoes, or some other article. 
For this the presiding judge gives them two or three 
months at some institution which is supported by 
heretic taxes ; this is just what Paddy wanted. 
More go to the State almshouse. This is an easy 
matter, as in most cases the majority of the State 
Directors are of the same breed and creed, and here 
heretic taxes support them ; and in the spring they 
come out with their bank account (which most of 
them have) untouched ; and this state of affairs has 
been going on from year to year for these past fifty 
years, and still unthinking heretics have failed to 
catch on to it. 

It has been the custom of this Roman Catholic 



65 

Irish race for these past fifty years to underbid in 
the labor market in New England, until they now 
have got the control of nearly all the trades in 
their own hands. This is a wrong state of affairs, 
and it is a duty which every Protestant employer of 
help owes to himself, and to his children, and his 
country, to see to it that he does his part at once 
toward remedying the evil that lack of observation 
and thoughtlessness has brought upon this genera- 
tion. To-day, wherever there is a strike of French 
Canadians, or of those representing other national- 
ities, it is a noticeable fact that a fresh importation 
of these Koman Catholic Irish are the first ones to 
come forward to fill their places, even at reduced 
prices. This is the policy of their political leaders 
and priests, for work at any price for Eoman 
Catholic Irish laborers means money and votes for 
both political leaders and priests ; and, with Flana- 
gan of Texas, that is what they are here for. 

It has been the experience that Roman Catholi- 
cism, in whatever country it has gained a foothold, 
has been able to hold its own only by, and for such 
length of time, as it could keep the people in igno- 
rance. Take for instance Italy, France, Portugal, 
and Spain, in the two former of which they have 
lost their prestige, and in the two latter, it is but a 
question of time (as events are daily occurring), 
when they will lose it there. It is the cursed 
Roman Catholic religion, and the enforced igno- 
rance of its people by the Roman Catholic priests, 



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that makes Ireland what it is to-day. As a state, 
or part of England, it would be much more for 
England's benefit to have it prosperous, than to 
have things as they are to-day. But Johnny Bull 
knows, from years of experience, what he has to 
deal with in the shape of these Roman Catholic 
priests, who are the real leaders of the ignorant and 
superstitious people with which they are surrounded. 
And it is a noticeable fact, that with all the poverty 
and degradation in Ireland, that the Roman Catholic 
churches in which they worship are as elegant and 
costly as any in other or more prosperous lands. The 
money to build and maintain them has been ground 
out of this God-forsaken race by the officiating 
priest of each diocese, and still the cry is continu- 
ally coming to America for help for the starving 
poor. 

Most of the Roman Catholics of to-day have taken 
their children from the public schools by order of 
their priests, who have from their pulpits proclaimed 
them as Godless, and the female Protestant teachers 
as no better than harlots ; but for all that, they have 
failed to request the Roman Catholic teachers in the 
public schools (of ^hom there are many) to resign. 
O no ; that would stop many heretic dollars from 
getting into the Roman Catholic Church treasury. 
It is a notorious fact that dollars always take the 
precedence of principles ; with these Roman Catholic 
priests, a small sum of money at the confessional 
will absolve from much sin if profitably committed 
against heretics. 



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It is a notorious fact to every observing person, 
that whenever or wherever there is a labor strike 
where these Roman Catholic Irish are employed, it 
is only the Protestant shop or yard that is struck ; 
the Roman Catholic Irish employer's business goes 
on without a ripple ; and it is suspected by many 
that these strikes are only another device of the 
Jesuits to embarrass Protestant employers, and 
worry them out of the business, so that Roman 
Catholic Irish employers can get their trade ; at 
any rate it has a decided look that way. And it 
has been asserted by some who think they know 
whereof they speak, that Roman Catholic Irish em- 
ployers have contributed to the support of the 
strikers in a majority of the cases during a strike ; 
for instance, in the case of the marble- workers and 
cigar-makers of Boston, and shoe manufacturers of 
Haverhill, and other places in New England. The 
hand of the Jesuit is readily seen in all these move-* 
ments. Old Cardinal Gibbons' puppet, by the 
name of Powderly, was the first to come to the 
front in these labor movements ; but now the old 
superannuated fossil of the Nineteenth Century, 
known as the Pope of Rome, is coming to the front 
as a champion of labor ; but at the same time he is 
establishing priest manufactories from one end of 
the earth to the other. These priests are expected 
to squeeze the last cent from the laborers in or out 
of the church, that it may be rich and rotten as it 
has been in times past ; but with judicious and 



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proper management and education of the present 
and coming generation, popery of to-day in America, 
iu the year two thousand two hundred, will compare 
with the religion of that time about the same as the 
tallow candle of old compares with the electric light 
of to-day. 

These Irish are the only race in New England 
who are continually abusing and maltreating the 
industrious and cleanly heathen Jhinese, as they 
designate them ; but it is a notorious fact that the 
only women who have been married to representa- 
tives of this Chinese race in America have been, 
without exception, those of Roman Catholic Irish 
blood, — and more's the pity for the Chinese ; and 
those who have traveled the earth over will tell you 
that nowhere on its face are there such heathen, or 
worse than brutes, as can be found right here in 
our midst in the shape of these Roman Catholic 
Irish. Such a curse are they considered, that when- 
ever one of them moves into a respectable neighbor- 
hood, it makes little difference how respectable he 
may be, the real estate in that neighborhood com- 
mences at once to depreciate, and half the estates 
in that location are soon on the market for sale ; 
and where these Roman Catholic Irish have 
colonized in a particular part of a city, real estate 
is valued at about one half of what it is just outside 
of that neighborhood, and can hardly be disposed 
of to anyone outside of this Roman Catholic Irish 
race. So great is the dread of respectable people 



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to owning property in the neighborhood "of these 
breeders of hoodlums, more especially those who 
have had experience with real estate in such neigh- 
borhoods, and so well known is it that this feeling 
exists, that many of them make a practice of going 
into a respectable neighborhood and purchasing a 
lot of land commence to dig a cellar, and pretend 
that they are going to put up a tenement house. 
The respectable neighbors are obliged to club 
together and buy them off, in order not to have a 
breeding-pen for hoodlums in their midst. This 
species of blackmail is practiced on respectable 
Protestants (or heretics) by these Roman Catholic 
Irish year in and year out, and as yet there is no 
remedy for it. Their priests set them the example, 
for they purchase the most desirable lots in the best 
neighborhoods for their churches ; and no matter 
how good the neighborhood was previous to the 
erection of that church, houses in it can be let only 
to Roman Catholic Irish afterward. 

Observe these young Irish hoodlums in front of 
the church : they ascend the steps with bowed head ; 
they remove their head-covering and kneel on the 
threshold ; they cross themselves before a picture of 
the Virgin Mary, and sprinkle themselves with holy 
water ; in ^yq minutes from that time, in sight of 
that church, you will find them robbing some heretic's 
fruit orchard, and using the most blasphemous, 
obscene, and profane language which could proceed 
from a bumaa mouth i and this is called Christianity 



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here in America, in this enlightened nineteenth 
century ! 

Go take a look into the back yard of one known 
as Father Scully, in Cambridgeport, Mass. See the 
life-size images of saints, martyrs, virgins, angels, 
and Christ on the cross ; notice the crowd of young 
hoodlums that' daily congregate there ; from their 
language and actions in and out of that yard shows 
the truth of the old saying that ''Familiarity breeds 
contempt." One need not go to India to find 
heathen ; every man has them in his midst, within 
ten minutes' walk from where he resides in any large 
New England city, in the shape of these Roman 
Catholic Irish hoodlums. "For by their acts ye 
shall know them." 

When will deluded laboring men learn and realize 
that they cannot add to the cost of every manufac- 
tured article by an increase in wages and a reduc- 
tion in time or hours of labor, without increasing 
the cost of every article consumed or used by them- 
selves or families ; by the increased price of build- 
ing leads to an increase of the price he has to pay 
for a home, as also the rent he pays for a house. 
The employer has the advantage every time. For 
ii^stance, if a shoe manufacturer is making a certain 
class of shoe which costs him 90 cents per pair, and 
he is selling them to the retailer for $1.00 per pair 
by the case, and the retailer is getting $1.25 per 
pair, but the laborer insists on getting $1.00 a pair 
from the manufacturer, or ten per cent advance, 



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then the inaDufacturer charges the retailer $1.25 
per pair by the case, and the retailer gets $1.50 a 
pair from the laborer, who thought he was doing a 
smart thing to get ten per cent advance for the 
price of his labor, when in fact he is fifteen cents 
more out of pocket than he would have been if he 
had made them at the old price. This is the way 
it works with every article of food and clothing 
which comes into the laborer's family. In war 
times laboring men received S3. 50 a day for their 
labor ; but they paid 20 cents a pound for sugar, 
which to-day is 7 cents ; they paid 30 cents a yard 
for cotton, which to-day is 6 cents per yard ; and 
everything else was in the same proportion, and 
they would have had more money in the end with 
wages at $1.50 a da}^ and articles of consumption 
on the market at the same ratio. There is a strike 
in the coal mines, and every laboring man in the 
United States is charged 25 cents a ton advance on 
his coal, so that a hundred laborers at the mine may 
get an advance of 5 cents a ton. There is a strike 
in several shoe shops or tanneries ; and so that a 
few men may add ten or fifteen cents a day to their 
wages, and laboring men throughout the United 
States pay an additional 25 cents for every pair of 
shoes they purchase for themselves and families, 
then the labor leaders (who toil not, neither do they 
spin, but yet live on the fat of the land) proclaim 
to their deluded followers, through the daily papers, 
that a great victory has been obtained for the labor- 



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iDg man. The cost price of the production of any 
article will be its market price, or value, — and to 
that the manufacturers' profit will be added every 
time ; and if the laboring man wants that article for 
himself or his family's use, he has got to pay the 
manufacturer's price or go without it ; and the only 
men who are reaping any real benefit are the men 
known as labor leaders, who do all their labor with 
their mouths, and draw their fat salaries from the 
pockets of their deluded victims. When a manu- 
facturers business does not pay him a reasonable 
sum on his investment, he will go out of it, and 
seek a better investment ; but the poor, deluded 
laborers whom he will then be obliged to discharge, 
will look farther and fare worse. 

But the fact is plainly evident to any intelligent 
observer, that the Irish Knight of Labor is digging 
his own grave ; for when laboring men receive four 
dollars a day for eight hours' labor, then a better 
class of men are going into the trades, and the 
manual training schools now being established 
throughout New England are going to furnish them. 
Then these Irish micks, who at the present time 
think they own, or at least want to own, the earth, 
or that part of it known as New England, will have 
to stand aside and make room for their betters. 

Protestant women of New England, it is to you 
we have to look for help to crush the head of this 
serpent in our midst known as Roman Catholicism. 
It is vou who can be the mothers in Israel of this 



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day and generation. With your influence you can 
accomplish a great work by preventing thousands 
of dollars reaching the treasury of the Roman Cath- 
olic Church. See to it that in your households none 
but Protestants are employed ; use all your influence 
with your friends to follow your example ; see to it 
that those parties who supply your households with 
the necessaries or luxuries of life are not the ser- 
vants of that to-be-curse of America, the Pope of 
Rome ; use your influence on your fathers, brothers, 
and sons, who give employment to men, women, or 
children, to have them employ only Protestants, for 
by so doing collectively, you will be the agents 
indirectly of keeping thousands of dollars out of 
the treasuries of the Roman Catholic Church. Lack 
of sustenance leads to starvation, and means sure 
death to this hydra-headed monster in our midst, 
which has reached its present bloated condition 
through the thoughtless and indiscreet, indirect con- 
tributions of your fathers and mothers to its treas- 
uries during these past fifty years. Let every Prot- 
estant woman of to day do her duty to herself, her 
family, and the State, and her sons and daughters 
in generations to come in the future will rise up and 
call her blessed. 

There is a story sometimes told in regard to the 
origin of the Roman Catholic Irish breed, though 
the author cannot vouch for its truth. It is as fol- 
lows : A she wolf and a male ape were in pens ad- 
joining each other in the ark, and are said to have 



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fallen in love with each other during the yoyage, 
and on being released strayed off together and did 
not stop until Ireland's shores were reached : result, 
the present race of bogtrotters, with the nature of 
the wolf and look of the ape. It is reported that 
so firm was the belief of the New York Park Com- 
missioners in 'this story, that when an ape was 
brought to them for the Zoo in Central Park they 
unanimously christened him Mr. Crowle}^ At any 
rate, it has been observed by observing men that 
there is nothing so low in the scale of humanity that 
ever reaches our shores but some Roman Catholic 
Irishwoman is ready to join her fortunes with it. 
Enumerations are unnecessary, as the daily papers 
are constantly furnishing proof, and it is said that 
ninety-nine out of a hundred of all the dime museum 
freaks or abortions of nature, such as half animal 
and half human beings, can readily be traced to a 
Roman Catholic Irish source. 

And to show that these Roman Catholic Irish 
people among us to-day are no different from their 
grandfathers and grandmothers who resided on Ire- 
land's bogs upward of a hundred years ago, and to all 
appearances their cussedness is hereditary, we quote 
the following paragraph, word for word, from a chap- 
ter of ''Young's Travels in Ireland," in June, 1776. 
He says : "Another circumstance was the excessive 
practice they have in general of pilfering. They 
steal everything they can lay their hands on, and, I 
should remark, that this is au account which has beeu 



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very generally given me ; all sorts of iron hinges, 
chains, locks, keys, etc. ; gates will be cut in pieces 
and conveyed away as fast as built ; trees as big as 
a man's body, and that would require ten men to 
move, gone in one night. Lord Longford has had 
the new wheels of a car stolen as soon as made. 
Good stones out of a wall will be taken for a fire- 
hearth, etc., though a breach is made to get at them. 
In short, everything, and even such as are appar- 
ently of no use to them. Nor is it easy to catch 
them, for they never carry their stolen goods home, 
but to some bog-hole. Turnips are stolen by car- 
loads, and two acres of wheat plucked off in a 
night. In short, their pilfering and stealing is a 
perfect nuisance." 

How perfectly the above description fits the sons 
and daughters of those Roman Catholic Irish bog- 
trotters of to-day, I leave my Protestant reader to 
judge. 

Very often we are told by some doughty leader 
of these Roman Catholic Irish, from a public plat- 
form, of their patriotism, which is extolled by the 
large and loud mouthed orators to the very skies ; 
but let us take a few cold facts from the history of 
the War of the ReA^olution of 1776 : During the 
month of June, 1776, a strange woman came into 
General Washington's camp and wanted an inter- 
view with the commander, which was granted. She 
then and there unfolded a plot of the Tories to 
assassinate the father of his couatry. Then, as to- 



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day, if a man or body of men wished for some one 
to do dirty work, whether it is the clearing out of a 
privy or the assassination of a fellow-being (as in 
the case of Cronin of Chicago, or Sawtelle of Bos- 
ton) , they naturally look around for some Roman 
Catholic Irishman as being most likely to accept 
the job, and at the lowest price. In this case the 
Tories had made a contract with a Roman Catholic 
Irishman, by the name of Tom Hickey, who was 
one of Washington's life-guards. On investigation 
of the conspiracy it was proved that for a certain 
sum of money, to be paid by the Tories of New 
•York, Hickey was to assassinate Washington. 
After learning these facts, Washington directed 
Hickey to be tried by court-martial, and the trial 
having resulted in his conviction, he was shot in the 
presence of the whole army. 

Only one year later a conspiracy was formed in 
the army, probably through the influence of Tory 
money, to oust General Washington from his posi- 
tion of Commander-in-chief of the American Army. 
The leader in this conspiracy was a Roman Catholic 
Irishman, by the name of Tom Conway, who was 
formerly an officer in the French army, and when 
he enlisted in the American army was given the 
rank of General ; but as treachery seems to flow in 
the blood of this race, Conway was no exception to 
the rule. It is this experience that Washington 
had with this Roman Catholic Irish race that caused 
him to make that now famous order to "Put none 



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but Americans on guard" ; and ''Put no R. C. Irish- 
Americans on guard," should be the order of to-day. 
It is reported, with how much truth the author can- 
not state, that one or the other of Benedict Arnold's 
parents had Roman Catholic Irish blood in their 
veins (blood will tell) ; at any rate, his treachery 
would seem to verify the truth of the statement. 
There was another Roman Cs^tholic Irish General 
named Tarleton, connected with the British army. 
He commanded two regiments of cavalry composed 
wholly of picked Roman Catholic Irishmen. This 
Tarleton was to the British army of that day, what 
Fitz Hugh Lee was to the Confederate army of the 
late war, though he lacked Lee's honor, and was 
little better than a wholesale assassin. For in- 
stance, on the occasion of General Buford's retreat 
with his army from North Carolina, his men were 
so tired and exhausted that they were ready to drop 
in their tracks. This cowardly monster in human 
shape rode up w^ith his fresh Irish cavalry and cap- 
tured Buford's rear guard, who immediately threw 
down their arms and cried out for quarter ; but this 
band of Irish assassins immediately killed one hun- 
dred and fifty of these unarmed men on the spot, 
and mangled and maimed one hundred and fifty 
more so badly that they were left on the field for 
dead, and only about fifty were made prisoners, 
and nearly every one of these were wounded. 
It is also a matter of history that another Roman 
Catholic Irishman, by the name of Pat Ferguson, 



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commanded several regiments of Irish Tories, and 
did all in his power toward destroying the Ameri- 
can army. There was still another Roman Cath- 
olic, by the name of Lord Rawdon, who commanded 
several regiments composed of Roman Catholic 
Irish, and tlie same was constantly being reinforced 
by new recruits from Ireland. 

At the introduction of the man Powderly at 
a meeting held in Faneuil Hall on the evening of 
April 5, 1890, by a leader of the Knights of Labor, 
a man said to be an Irishman and a Roman Catho- 
lic, the following paragraph, taken from the Boston 
Daily Globe of the following day (let us bear in 
mind, that man was addressing an audience ninety- 
five out of every hundred of which were Roman 
Catholic Irish), reads as follows: ''It was my 
pleasure to listen to an encomium upon that speech 
from the lips of one of the leaders of the bar of 
Massachusetts (did the speaker mean Pat Collins ?) , 
who said that our leader (meaning Powderly) had 
only voiced the gospel of humanity (applause), 
and we are here to-night to do our part in dissemi- 
nating and spreading that gospel (does he not mean 
Roman Catholicism?), ivhich every true Knight of 
Labor believes in (loud cheers).'' 

After that speech, does any person deny that the 
Knights of Labor, headed by Powderly (or possibly, 
more appropriately, by Gibbons), is a Roman 
Catholic Irish organization? Have not those words 
the same ring as those spoken by Gibbons at the 



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Roman Catholic Centennial recently held at Balti- 
more ? 

In conclusion, we must say to the Roman Catho- 
lic Irish in New England, do not encroach further 
on our established institutions ; established by the 
men and women who landed from the Mayflower on 
Plymouth Rock ; established by the patriots of 
'76, and sealed with their blood. There is a line 
which you may approach, and you are near it ; the 
minute men of 1890 (the Knights of Equity), that 
mysterious order, are close up to it on the other side. 
They are not saints, church-members, or Quakers. 
They are the Miles Standishes of the present time. 
In their veins runs the blood of their ancestors of 
1620 and 1776. They believe that the founders of 
American liberty intended America to be a Protest- 
ant country, and they are as ready to resist en- 
croachments against human liberty and human rights 
as were their ancestors before them. 

They approach you peaceably with the ballot in 
one hand, but are ready to resist encroachments 
with the repeating Winchester held in the other. 
You can boast of the prowess of your Sullivans, 
but don't forget that a repeating Winchester in the 
hands of a fifteen-year-old boy is equal to twenty 
Sullivans. Protestants of New England, be on 
your guard. This farce has gone on long enough ; 
if forced much further it is liable to end in tragedy. 

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